The Wine development release 1.2-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.2. It marks the
beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good
testing to help us make 1.2 as good as possible.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
  - Many new toolbar icons.
  - Support for alpha blending in image lists.
  - Much more complete shader assembler.
  - Support for Arabic font shaping and joining.
  - A number of fixes for video rendering.
  - Font antialiasing configuration through fontconfig.
  - Improved handling of desktop link files.
  - Various bug fixes.






 Please test your favorite applications for problems and regressions and let the Wine team know so fixes 
can be made before the final release. Find the release candidate here.